A few questions to any explosives specialists or people that otherwise have any experience with hand grenades.

  1. we have had a few incidents where low level gang members have been paid to throw hand grenades into people’s homes, supposedly through closed glass windows. How hard or easy is this? Is a hand grenade heavy enough - or has an appropriately sharp shape or the likes - to break the glass?
  2. if one was hit by one of these attacks and one miraculously notices the grenade landing on one’s floor, is there anything that could be done to minimize physical damage to one’s body? Would, say, a piece of furniture shield one from the shards?
  3. are the shards or the blast wave/pressure the more dangerous, or both?
  • AA5B@lemmy.world
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    2 hours ago

    I always wondered about the approach I’ve seen in a couple movies …. Could you save yourself by tackling the bad guy onto the grenade and being on top of him. Aside from the impossibility of being in a situation where that makes sense, and reacting quickly enough, would the bad guy contain both the shards and the pressure enough to save everyone else?

    • printf("%s", name);@piefed.blahaj.zoneOPEnglish
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      2 hours ago

      Good question! And if we’re talking movies, I wonder the viability of for instance kicking or throwing the grenade away, assuming there is enough time left.

      • AA5B@lemmy.world
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        2 hours ago

        I don’t remember the movie but I recently saw one where the protagonist reversed his rifle, swung it like a bat, and sent the grenade back to the original thrower. It was good for a laugh